TRUSTED BY LEADERS
IN SOME OF THE WORLD'S
MOST COMPLEX ORGANISATIONS
WHAT WE DO
Real world simulations.
Lasting impact.
Our experiential programmes prepare leaders to perform with clarity, courage, and integrity in complex, high-pressure environments.
LEADING THROUGH COMPLEXITIY
DECISION-MAKING UNDER PRESSURE
COLLABORATION ACROSS BOUNDARIES
LEADING IN MATRIX ORGANISATION
HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS
ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
CULTURE AND BEHAVIOUR
SUSTAINED
IMPACT
Operation Storm® provides a high pressure, exciting and stimulating experiential learning event, giving a realistic insight into the work of investigators, exposing delegates to multiple leadership challenges whilst addressing the key objective of making critical decisions in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
Blank Canvas
For leadership challenges too specific to borrow: a strategic shift, a merger, a new operating model, a culture you are trying to
build. We start with your situation and design the experience around it, so
the decisions your leaders face in the room are the ones that matter back
at work.
ABOUT US
About RED Leadership
At RED Leadership, we design and deliver immersive experiences that help people lead with clarity, courage and purpose when the environment is complex, uncertain and the stakes are high. We work globally with senior leaders and organisations across financial services, pharmaceuticals, food, retail, manufacturing, aviation and technology.
Our approach is deliberately different from conventional leadership development. We don't simply tell leaders what good leadership looks like. We place them inside realistic, emotionally engaging simulations where information is incomplete, priorities compete and decisions have consequences.
Through experiences such as Operation Storm® and Immerse®, leaders test how they communicate, collaborate, make decisions and lead under pressure. They then take those insights back into their own organisations.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Kevin O'Leary
Our approach is grounded in Kevin's own experience. He spent 30 years in policing, including senior detective and command roles at New Scotland Yard leading complex operations and specialist teams.
Ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, he was appointed UK lead for serious and organised crime, developing strategy with national and international partners across law enforcement, government, the military and commercial organisations.
Kevin was also a specialist hostage and crisis negotiator, working on life-at-risk incidents and kidnap-for-ransom cases. That work taught him how people behave as pressure rises, why listening matters, how dangerous assumptions can be and the value of calm decision-making when information is incomplete. Those lessons shape every programme we run.
Our Team
Kevin works alongside a team of experienced specialist facilitators and amazing actors who bring our immersive exercises to life. Our facilitation is signposted, not scripted.
Participants make real decisions and live with the outcomes, and our facilitators help them understand what happened and what it means for how they lead. The aim is an experience people are still talking about, and learning from, long after the programme has finished.